Meaning of Rapture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
2. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
   countable, uncountable
3. Alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
4. The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.”

“Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…]”

“Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.”

“My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."”

“In the last week, believers have linked Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the rapture theory: some on TikTok have suggested that Kirk, who in death became a martyr for Christian nationalists and whose memorial service veered into religious revival territory, could be resurrected during the rapture.”

“That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture.”

“With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.”

“Your pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry”

“The end of the world will be at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, says Camping, who along with his organization, Family Radio, are behind those billboards across the country forecasting the Rapture this Saturday. The Rapture, the Last Days, Armageddon and the Final Days of Judgment are all interchangeable. It's when God will destroy the Earth to show his love for humanity.”

“Brian J Dunn points out an aspect of the Rapture I hadn't considered: thousands, even millions, of new housing vacancies coming onto an already oversaturated market. If you notice your more religious neighbors go missing at 6 pm this evening, you should be prepared for the possibility that not only will Satan be freely walking the earth for seven years as 75% of humanity perishes in earthquakes, fires, and plague, but also that home values could fall as much as another 10%, leading to further weakening of economic growth, and great financial hardship for families with underwater mortgages.”

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